Would anyone be able and willing to take on a mod-enabling project (EXE editing)

[Buster's Uncle]

  You can count on that help.

[Mart]

What would be the best, is ability to declare a color for the text.
In pcx palette for now, and there is work attempted to get full color - for the future
Maybe then, waiting for full colors would be better, if they are done soon.

[Buster's Uncle]

I had to back up a page to see what you where talking about (faction colors and the special case of the Spartans to have white-on-black) but your suggestion makes a lot of sense.

Plotinus, since this is related to the sort of display issues you're focusing on, please take note.

[Mart]

Actually, when you take a look at the bottom of the faction.pcx file, there are several boxes with colors and indication what they are for.
There is "Faction Text Colors" box too. It maybe works for only some texts, but then, it might be not that difficult to enable it.
There are like to boxes for colors. For Spartans, the upper is close to white, the lower is like black. Maybe when the game takes color for Spartans, it points to wrong box?

[Buster's Uncle]

I would guess that the way it's set up is some sort of workaround that never got straightened out...

[Mart]

So an additional box with unit shield text color would be ok, though every faction pcx would need to be corrected (new box color added).